One more reason copyright deserves to die.
In the US, a lawsuit like this would never fly.
Though Poland needs to modernize it's law.
- Pay $44 billion.
- Pay $44 billion and go through Discovery.
Same as trying to do a construction project in San Francisco, people will come out of the woodwork [edit: meaning separate cases, but with the same basic goal] with tons of money and delay, delay, delay. https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/12/20/nefsa-new-england-fishe...
Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, but clearly the tactic is to come up with any challenge that takes time to resolve whether reasonable or not just because of the time and expense.
The issue is still having the money when you need them before you win, and the lost time and nerves. Even choosing 2 different courts in opposite sides of Poland is pointing at this tactic by Newag.
There was a female deputy Magdalena Biejat, now a president candidate, who was trying to make some public inquiry but the deputies from other party prevented that.
It all works because the former ruling party organized around themselves some kind of semi-religious cult consisting of around 1/3 of nation, usually older people that oppose everything they don't understand.
When it comes to "helping the business" both parties act the same way.
[0] https://www.wnp.pl/logistyka/chca-by-sprawa-newagu-zajely-si...
Mind expanding a bit about your perceived dramatis personae here?
this describes every country's conservative party btw
If you want to donate to the legal effort, the CCC has started a legal fund: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" --RATM
That is, IMO, the most important album of the 20th Century.
One thing that is unclear to me is who is backing whom. The Left / Together Party backs our guys - no surprise there, all lefties love trains. But they are not such a big party in Poland, they can raise some ruckus in the media but I am not sure they can offer comprehensive legal/political backing in order to score a victory. They certainly would like to, it's a great story that would add them some voters.
Razem has Paulina Matysiak who is a big train nerd so she's on the right side of this issue, but for a few decades the biggest supporter of hacking/open source culture in Poland was PSL's Waldemar Pawlak (he even organized Linux conferences in Palace of Culture :) ). I only found out when I attended one such conference in late 2000s and he had a presentation about Linux/Open Source in administration. It did not seem to turn the whole PSL into open source supporters and their image of backward/naive farmers certainly doesn't match with that.
Whenever there's some politicized case parties switch sides depending on temporary interests (see protests against ACTA back in 2011 vs PIS defending their Pegasus affair and spying on opposition members and journalists in 2060-2022).
Saying defrauding others does not seem right to me. If you defraud a distributor of EU funds, that may have impacted EU funds; they would have a claim.
Do you have a source for your assertion?
Surely embedding a remotely triggered off-switch, as a vulnerability for military and commercial trains (and the overall supply chain logistics) would merit some kind of investigation?
Can't anyone with an antenna in a semi-close proximity spoof GPS signals that would engage these mechanisms?
Vampires fear the light of truth for good and proper reasons.
They should get awards and payouts for bringing this to light now rather than the lives it would cost during a world war.
If the company makes it so these trains stop functioning once they are in specific locations, what determines that location? A weak GPS radio signal (which have had issues with spoofing in the past)?
What would happen if that radio signal was maliciously crafted and broadcast towards trains with targeted payloads that engage this functionality? Harvests/food stuffs rot?
This line of thought doesn't require genius level IQ, given the plots in some of the movies today even a relative dunce could compare and come up with this. Food security has been an issue for every country for millennia.
When the delusional, blind, and evil get into positions of power like this, take no beneficial action, make systems brittle and prone to breakage, and act as a front-of-line blocker for others that would take action to correct, then things go bad, really bad.
Their actions end up culminating in self-induced destruction directly or more often indirectly. Once you have no food, there is no way to produce it fast enough. If you can't transport it, there is no way to get it to locations with demand (it rots).
There are many cascade failures where after some critical juncture has been met, there is nothing that can be done to resolve the issue. A kobayashi maru, a great wave of destruction that you know is coming, but hasn't arrived yet, but everything is in its path (including themselves), and they can't change that.
Its the fundamental nature of evil people to destroy themselves, and others within their sphere of influence, and they most often don't even realize it because they've accepted delusion making them predictable always making choices that seek such outcomes (while claiming and believing they aren't).
The unfounded belief that A doesn't lead to B, when observations and objective measures (based externally in reality) and related predictions show A leads to B.
They believe, it won't happen, and then it does.
Go public earlier is BS - they went public a year ago when it was clear there is political change in PL.
If they would go public in before government change it could have been tragic ( company and company ownership is tightly coupled with prev political power). If previous political power would stay in power I do not believe they would go public.
As much as they are showing in presentation work was done when previous political power was still strong - well good that they went public in the end but I do believe there still was shitload of calculations.
So if you want to go public watch out calculate best possible time. As much as guys are great don’t believe it is pure heroism - pure heroism is stupid - so they did right thing at right time.
I think the lack of traction is endemic and happens regardless of current political power. This is because one of the issues they complain about was how hard was it to explain to journalists. Journalists did not get it and neither did the people. Even the Pegasus affair did not go far with the current legislature. In a more dishonest note, they should have pulled a Russian conspiracy theory on it and it suddenly would be all over the news. As it was done on home turf it just is not so serious. Just look at how the Americans do with the Chinese, there might even be nothing but it is taken seriously.